Every housewife tries in the summer season to make as many blanks for the winter as possible. To please and surprise her relatives, she experimentes with different products and recipes.
For the preparation of blanks often used pear wild. In itself, its fruits are inedible, but jam can please any gourmet with its taste. How to cook it? Now we will tell.
First recipe
It turns out a very fragrant wild pear jam . It will take about an hour to prepare it. The number of components is calculated per one liter can.
To prepare you will need:
- a kilogram of wild pears;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- one small lemon;
- 200 milliliters of water.
Cooking technology
To make such a jam, only ripe fruits are needed. Since everyone knows that wild fruit varieties spoil much faster, before you start the cooking process, you should carefully review them again. If you come across a little crushed and darkened, then they will not work, because they will ruin the appearance of the dessert.
When the pears are picked, they should be washed well with water and dried on a paper towel.
To make it more convenient to treat yourself to this delicacy, the ponytails can not be removed - just shorten a little.
The fruits themselves need to be pierced in many places. This is done so that during cooking the syrup is better absorbed into the pear.
Having done all these manipulations, the fruits need to be held in boiling water for about seven minutes. Then move them for a few minutes into a bowl of cold water.
Syrup is made in a separate container. To do this, water with sugar is brought to a boil. Then you need to wait until the last crystals are dissolved.
Prepared pears are transferred into hot syrup. Then they are left for 24 hours.
After this time, the infused fruits are sent to the stove along with the syrup, brought to a boil. After which another 5 minutes are simmered.
Then the future jam is removed from the stove. After sent again insist on 12 hours. Such a process must be done three times, and all because the skin of the fruit is very hard.
When the dessert is boiled for the last time, it is necessary to squeeze the juice from the lemon and add to the container with it.
Ready-made wild game pear jam should be closed hot in pre-sterilized jars.
It is cooled upside down, wrapped in something warm, about a day.
This preservation is perfectly preserved at room temperature.
In this recipe, in order to give the dessert a richer flavor, you can add various components during cooking, for example, such as cinnamon, wine, lemon peel, cloves.
Very sweet jam
Everyone knows that the pear is wild in itself is not very juicy. Therefore, it is suitable only for jam. To taste, it turns out a little sour, but pleasant.
To make jam from wild game pear for the winter more sweet, you will need:
- a kilogram of fruit;
- 1500 grams of granulated sugar;
- 500 milliliters of water.
Whole and undamaged fruits are thoroughly washed and cut into small slices. They are placed in boiling water and are there until they become softer. Then the pears are taken out of the water. Let them cool slightly. From the same liquid, adding sugar there, cook the syrup.
Already in the finished syrup, but in boiling form, add chilled pears and cook for 15 minutes.
After leaving insist on 24 hours. This should be done three times.
Hot jam is poured into cooked jars, closed and sent to cool.
With apples
You can make a different jam from wild game (pear). The recipe is quite simple. To prepare you will need:
- wild pears - a kilogram;
- apples - 1 kilogram;
- granulated sugar - the same amount.
Making jam
Fruits are carefully selected and washed under running water. After they are cut into small slices and stacked in a deep container, while pouring sugar. Then they must be left for several hours and wait for the juice to appear.
After that, they should be sent to a hot surface, boiled and set aside for 24 hours. So do three times.
Ready jam is poured into sterile jars. Then it wraps up and remains in this form until completely cooled.
And how else is jam prepared, where is the main ingredient of wild pear? Recipes for the winter can be very diverse. Although at first glance they are all very similar, but in reality each one is unique in itself.
Pear jam
Ingredients:
- a kilogram of wild pears;
- 1000-1200 grams of granulated sugar (it depends on what the jam should be - sour or sweet);
- 250-375 milliliters of water.
Rinse and dry the pears well. Carefully remove the ponytails from them and cut out the middle. As a result, the following should turn out - the fetus itself is whole, and inside there is a through hole.
In an enameled container, the one where the jam will be cooked, prepared fruits are added and poured with water. The fluid should cover them completely.
After put on the stove and boil. Reduce the heat immediately to a minimum and keep it until the pears are a little softer. It takes about 10-15 minutes.
Then, using a slotted spoon, remove the fruit into a clean and dry bowl.
While the slightly boiled pears cool, you need to boil the syrup. Separately mix water and granulated sugar. Keep on fire until the latter has completely dissolved.
When the syrup is ready, pears are transferred to it. Then it all goes to the stove and cooks for about 25 minutes. The capacity is removed and left to cool completely. Then the cooking process should be repeated again, but it should already be cooled for 12 hours.
After time, you need to check the jam. If the pear is soft, then the jam is ready, after which it can be closed. If the fruits are still harsh, then boil again 25 minutes. Then you should let the jam cool slightly. Then roll the product into cans.
Cooked pear game for the winter tastes almost the same as usual. Therefore, in cold weather, you can treat yourself to healthy fruits.
Pear Jam
Consider another recipe for this fruit jam. To prepare, you need:
- wild pear - a kilogram;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg;
- decoction of pear - 500 ml (it is done in the cooking process).
Rinse selected fruits thoroughly under running water. Then remove the peel from them and remove the core. Cut them into small cubes and put them in a pan. Top with cold water and cook until the pear becomes soft.
Discard the cooked fruits in a colander, and use the water as a pear decoction.
Syrup is prepared from 500 ml of decoction and granulated sugar. When the foam appeared on top of it, you need to add cooked pears.
Boil the fruit for 15 minutes. Then let them cool.
So you need to do three days in a row, boiling jam two to three times in 24 hours. During this process, the jam should be cooled at room temperature, and always covered.
After the last time it is boiled, the product can be either closed in sterile jars or treated to your household.
Sugar Jam
Ingredients:
- pear - 2 kg (in peeled form);
- granulated sugar - 2.5 kg;
- water - 1 l.
Rinse the pears well. A special tool to remove the core, remove it. If it is not, then you can simply cut into slices, while removing the middle of the knife.
Fruits should be put in a pan and pour water so that the fruits are completely hidden under it. After you need to boil the pears until soft.
Then drain the water into one container. Put the fruit in another bowl.
Take a container of water and a large mug, drain into the last liter of liquid. Then add sugar to it and mix. Send to a hot surface to boil the syrup. Until the crystals dissolve and a foam appears, stir constantly.
Transfer the cooked pears to the hot ready-made syrup and cook for 10 minutes. After that, leave the product to cool for three hours. After this time, boil again for 10 minutes.
In sterilized jars, you first need to put the hot pears, and only then pour them with syrup.
Now you can close the lids.
With wine
Fans of experimenting clearly will like the following recipe.
For cooking you will need:
- wild pear - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg;
- white wine - 200 milliliters;
- one lemon (for juice).
Cooking
Rinse the pears thoroughly and beat them with a fork in many places. Throw in boiling water and hold there for about seven minutes. You need to cool the fruit in cold water, and then transfer it to a dry bowl.
Wine is poured into the container where the syrup will be boiled and sugar is poured. Then all this should be mixed and sent to the stove. When the syrup boils, pour them pears and leave for 24 hours to soak.
This jam is brewed in several stages, the intervals between them are 12-24 hours.
When the jam is cooked for the last time, lemon juice is added.
Conclusion
Now you know what the wild pear is used for. Recipes of different options for jam from this fruit, we examined in the article. We hope that you can cook such a workpiece for the winter at home.